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{{short description|Dutch painter}}
{{dablink|Pieter Post is also the Dutch name of [[Postman Pat]].}}▼
 
▲{{dablinkhatnote|Pieter Post is also the Dutch name of [[Postman Pat]].}}
[[image:Pieter Post (1608-1669), portrait by Pieter Nolpe.png|thumb|Pieter Post in 1651. Portrait by Pieter Nolpe, detail of a larger work]]
[[Image:Caesar van Everdingen Count Willem II of Holland Granting Privileges.jpg|thumb|''Count [[William II of Holland]] Granting Privileges to the Dike Wardens of [[Spaarndam]] in 1255'' by [[Caesar van Everdingen]] (figures) and Pieter Post (architectural elements), 1654 ([[Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland]], [[Leiden]])]]
 
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==Biography==
Post was baptised in [[Haarlem]], the son of a [[stained-glass]] painter and the older brother of painter [[Frans Post]].<ref>{{cite web| title=The Getty: Pieter Post| url=http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=752&page=1|accessdateaccess-date=October 24, 2006 |archiveurlarchive-url = httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20061213092222/http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=752&page=1 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedatearchive-date = December 13, 2006}}</ref> He is credited with the creation of the ''Dutch [[baroque]]'' style of architecture, along with his longtime collaborator [[Jacob van Campen]]. Together they designed the [[Mauritshuis]] in the Hague.<ref>{{cite web|title=Post, Pieter &mdash; Encyclopædia Britannica|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9061034/Pieter-Post|accessdateaccess-date=October 24, 2006}}</ref> According to Houbraken he was a famous architect who introduced his brother Frans to [[Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange]], while he was working on plans for the [[Mauritshuis]].<ref name=Houbraken>{{linkin languagelang|nl|Middle Dutch}} [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0312.htm Pieter Post Biography] in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by [[Arnold Houbraken]], courtesy of the [[Digital library for Dutch literature]]</ref>
 
According to the RKD he became a member of the [[Haarlem Guild of St. Luke]] in 1623, and became painter and architect for [[Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange|Stadhouder Frederik Hendrik]].<ref name=RKD>[httphttps://www.rkd.nl/rkddben/explore/artists/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArtists&search=priref=64427 Pieter Post] in the [[RKD]]</ref> He was the overseer from 1640 for the new additions to [[Paleis Noordeinde]] in The Hague.<ref name=RKD/> From 1645 he was the architect for Frederik Hendrik for [[Huis ten Bosch]], where he worked together with Jacob van Campen.<ref name=RKD/> He died in [[The Hague]], aged 61.
His son [[Maurits Post|Maurits]] became an architect, and his son Johan Post became a painter,<ref name=RKD/> and his daughter married the anatomist and collector [[Frederik Ruysch]]. His granddaughter [[Rachel Ruysch]] became a famous flower painter.
 
==Architectural work==
==(Some) buildings he designed==
*1642 Huis[[Design Museum Dedel]], [[The Hague]]
*1643 Huis Prinsessegracht 4 (the Hague)
*1645-1650 [[Huis ten Bosch]] (the Hague)
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*1655 Johan de Witt Huis, (the Hague)
*1657-1658 [[Weigh House (Leiden)|De Waag]], [[Leiden]]
*1659-1685 Stadhuis[[Maastricht City Hall]], [[Maastricht]]
*1659-1662 Kruithuis, [[Delft]]
*1660 Hofje van Nieuwkoop (Den Haag),
*1661-1662 Torendeel van Lambertuskerk in Buren
*1662-1665 Kasteel [[Heeze Castle]], [[Heeze]]
*1662-1680 Hervormde Kerk, [[Bennebroek]]
*1663 Kerk van [[Stompetoren]]
*1667 [[Oostkerk, Middelburg]], [[Middelburg, Zeeland]]
*1668- Kaaswaag, [[Gouda, South Holland|Gouda]]
 
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Den Haag - Huis Tenten Bosch 1900.jpg|[[Huis ten Bosch]] (the Hague), built 1645-1650
File:Den_Haag,_Mauritshuis_vanaf_Hofvijver_2006-05-29_16.12.JPG|Mauritshuis (The Hague)
File:Waag Leiden.jpg|De Waag Leiden
File:Gouda waaggebouw februari 2003.jpg|Kaaswaag Gouda
File:Den Haag - Prinsegracht 15.JPG|Dedel House (Huis Dedel) at Prinsegracht 15 in The Hague
File:Huis Zwanenburg te Halfweg 20090927.jpg|[[Gemeenlandshuis Zwanenburg]], former seat of the ''[[Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland]]'' waterboard, in [[Halfweg]]
File:Hofje van Nieuwkoop 002.jpg|Hofje van Nieuwkoop (Den Haag)
File:Joris van der haagen - gezicht op princessegracht ca1660.jpg|Prinsessegracht 4 in The Hague, 1660, where the [[Confrerie Pictura]] was situated.
File:Bennebroek-hervormde kerk.jpg|Dutch Reformed church of [[Bennebroek]], which was finished posthumously in 1680.
Image:DelftscheZwervers.jpg|One of the "towers" of the "Kruithuis" in Delft
ImageFile:StadhuisMaastricht,gravurePvdAa,naartekeningPieterPost,1666,1715Maastricht 2010-30-03 – Stadthaus am Markt - panoramio (cropped).jpg|[[Maastricht]] city hall, considered Post's most accomplished work. After a drawing by Pieter Post
</gallery>
 
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==External links==
*{{commonscatcommons category-inline}}
*[http://www.artnet.com/artist/568163/pieter-jansz-post.html Pieter Post] on [[Artnet]]
 
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{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
| NAME = Post, Pieter
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Architect, Painter and Printmaker
| DATE OF BIRTH = 1 May 1608
| PLACE OF BIRTH =
| DATE OF DEATH = 8 May 1669
| PLACE OF DEATH =
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Post, Pieter}}
[[Category:1608 births]]
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[[Category:Dutch Golden Age architects]]
[[Category:Dutch Golden Age painters]]
[[Category:ArtistsDutch frommale Haarlempainters]]
[[Category:MembersPainters of thefrom Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke]]
[[Category:Court architects]]
[[Category:17th-century Dutch architects]]
[[Category:Dutch Baroque architects]]
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